Card Game

Still getting feedback about the recent Card Game fan poll in which we asked which team fans would like to be added to Big East Conference football. What was really surprising is that East Carolina dominated the voting. Their fans arrived in droves, apparently eager to ensure their collective voice was heard on an  issue […]

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The significance can’t be overstated: Bonds for the new downtown basketball arena for the University of Louisville will go up for sale in early July and close a couple of weeks later when $360 million in bonds have been claimed.
Total debt service for the project is estimated at $598.8 million over three decades. Now, those […]

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Clutching two tickets to the Final Four basketball tournament just two days before the action will begin in Dallas in 1986. Dad, Mom and Steve are going. Pack the bags, gas up the vehicle, attach the University of Louisville car flags. Friend in Dallas will loan us his apartment, stay with his girlfriend. Go, go, […]

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Sonja reports that U of L will be well represented in the U.S. Olympics in August, with Pam Bustin working with the U.S. field hockey team:
By Sonja
When Pam Bustin signed on to coach women’s field hockey at the University of Louisville in 1998, the team was playing on the equivalent of a cow pasture and […]

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Nobody was keeping count but there had to be a record number of fights between opposing fans when the University of Louisville and Tennessee football teams squared off in September 1992. The introduction of Muhammad Ali before the game may have set a pugilistic tone.
“It was unlike anything we had ever seen,” recalls Bill Olsen, […]

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